10 Unexpected Habits That Are Actually Good for Your Health

3. Swearing: reduces stress and increases pain tolerance

Most people will probably agree that swearing is just a bad habit that you need to get rid of. However, various studies have shown that swearing can reduce stress and help to remove frustration. Moreover,

it can increase pain tolerance according to a study done by Keele University’s School of Psychology. It’s an emotional release, but if you overuse it, swearing will lose its emotional attachment and turn into a bad and unnecessary habit.

4. Being messy: helps to boost creativity

Remember how your mom always told you that being messy is a sign of bad manners, disorganization, and no discipline? Well, actually, our messy habits show the creativity that we have hiding inside. There was an experiment done by Kathleen Vohs and her colleagues at the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management.

2 groups of people were put in neat and messy rooms and were told to come up with as many uses for ping pong balls as they could and to write them down. Results showed that the participants in the messy room produced more creative ideas.